Orkney - Softcover

Sackville, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619023164 ISBN 13: 9781619023161

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC, 2014

Synopsis

Following her wonderful debut, "The Still Point, " Sackville returns with a strangely beautiful short novel about love and sex and obsession. A literature professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. He is embarked on his life's work, a book about enchantment-narratives in literature, most all of them involving strange girls and women, but soon finds himself distracted by his own enchantment for his new white-haired young wife. They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, "the Seal Islands," a barren place of extraordinary beauty. And as the days of their honeymoon pass his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe.

About this title

Review:

"Poetic, dreamlike and beautifully written." --The Times

"In her adept hands this lyrical tale of a honeymooning professor and his enigmatic young bride brings the murky maritime beauty of the remote Scottish Archipelago to life." --Vogue

"Lyrical and compelling ... readers will be gripped from start to finish ... Orkney is entirely original. Sackville s beautiful and poignant novel reminds us of the real nature of tradition, which is not only to insist on retelling old stories, but also to remake them in our own image, for our own time ... In Orkney myth slips free from the dust and politesse of the library, and assumes a vivid, dangerous and unparaphraseable existence." --Times Literary Supplement

'A haunting novel set on a beautifully described remote island in Orkney ... It's like a folk ballad, full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses. -Marie Claire

Delicate and haunting... With this intense, daring book, Sackville - already a writer of promise - has shown how very good she can be.' --Daily Telegraph

'Sackville clearly has a gift for the poetic, writing beautifully of everything she touches upon.' --Sunday Times

About the Author:

Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1619023164
• ISBN 13: 9781619023161
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264